Billy Young's Blog - Posts Tagged "birds"

I still haven’t started writing the new tale. I did manage to get the gooseberry wine started though. I also got my hedges done but only after I bought a new cheap pair of trimmers. My old ones decided that it was time to die or rather they weren’t working when I went to use them on Tuesday. Calum an I stripped them down to see if we could get them going, sadly it wasn’t to be. That in turn meant a trip into town to get a new pair and stretching the budget to do so. Believe it or not it was cheaper getting the electric ones than buying the old hand shears, remember them. Well I do, as a kid my aunt would have me using the old rusty pair that always left my hands in blisters. It would have helped if they’d been oiled but I think that was a foreign concept for my aunt. Anyways I got the hedges done and now the garden is sorted before I head back to work on Monday.
Talking of my garden it has been a good week for picking strawberries. I also got a lettuce, some herbs (oregano and chives), peas and onions, don’t worry there are plenty left. Unfortunately a bird got the only cherry just when I was thinking of picking it. I thought on Monday that maybe I’ll pick it tomorrow only to find it gone the next day. Serves me right for not putting the netting over the tree, which reminds me that I better get some over the blueberry bush this year. I didn’t last year and had no problems but if the cherry is anything to go by then the birds are learning where there is a free meal to be had. Not that I don’t mind sharing with nature, only I don’t think the local wildlife would leave much for me. Best to get the netting out then, which will be something to do this weekend.

I put my plants into my tubs as we had some good weather. Unfortunately it is to be quite frosty tonight. Luckily I haven’t put the tomatoes or peppers in the containers for them yet so was able to bring them indoors. The other plants will need to survive as best as they can. I also got given some carrots from a work friend, Norman. He gives me a lift to work everyday so he had them in the boot of his car. They were left over from his garden so he thought I could use them. It was good fortune for me as my lettuce was ravished by a cat or bird. Which ever it was it left none so I had an empty tub. He also gave me seeds he didn’t want anymore so Magz wants me to grow some sweetcorn. It means another grow-bag will be needed but maybe I can grow some more lettuce. Finally I have noticed the beetroot and potatoes are coming up. I had given up on them thinking they had been hit with the frost a few weeks back. It goes to show things take there own time.
It’s a long weekend so I have Monday off. Magz has got the orders in for the grass to be cut. I must admit I was planning on it last week. As you can tell it never happened though it is to be a nice day tomorrow but colder than it has been this week. Still a bit of time in the garden after being stuck in a factory all week sounds good.